Happy birthday, Darwin!
Em February 9th, 2009
I would like to state, for once and for all, that is it entirely conceivable to believe that Darwin’s theory of evolution explains how the world came to be, while at the same time it reveals the hand of a higher being. While it would be convenient for all of us, science can not and does not disprove the existence of God. I should think that this would have been well established by now, but STILL people come up with this ludicrous, narrow-minded, two-sided sham of an argument that leads to hair-pulling statements such as this one:
Next Thursday, Feb. 12, marks the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, probably the most influential scientist in intellectual history. Darwin’s theory of evolution has been making trouble for a century and a half, and shows no sign of stopping any time soon.
Darwin’s dangerous idea dethroned mankind as the pinnacle of all creation, and knocked God the Creator right out of the sky.
Apart from the folks who cling to Intelligent Design, most of us now accept the fact that the human race evolved through eons of natural selection.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090207.COWENT07/TPStory/National#
I would like to also point out that throughout his entire life, Darwin struggled with the idea of God. This was not a rational, studied approach to His existence but a troubled, emotional search for meaning in a cruel world.
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